A significant bonus should have been paid to postal service workers on the back of Covid

The same may apply to some other essential services e.g. nurses and other medical staff, albeit, it could be argued that medical staff dealing with sick folk, pandemic or not, is a core part of their job description. But goodness me! I just read an old article that had pictures of our post-boxes overflowing with Covid test kits; these all had to be handled by postal staff, at a time when nobody really know for certain, how long the virus could survive on surfaces. Those brave postal workers – while the rest of us were hiding away in our homes to avoid getting infected – had to handle such potentially lethal mail, putting themselves and their families at huge risk.

Yes, the demands by every worker for increased salaries isn’t really going to solve anything, as the money has to come from somewhere; and the more money that’s handed out, the higher prices will soar. So, what would be the point?

The government should have looked into what it has in reserve and as the pandemic eased, every postal worker should have been paid a tax-free, life-changing sum of money in gratitude, as a bonus. Perhaps £30,000 each?
Now, that will also have an impact, as many may then choose to go and set up a business and stop working; so, there could be a condition to stay in service for at least 12 months after receiving the bonus – to train new postal staff

If we had all stayed at home during the lockdown, then this sacrifice made by some of the essential services that enabled our ability to stay at home e.g. those who got food to us, kept the electricity, water and gas going, should all receive bonuses. Yes, most of the country kept working from home as possible, but those whose work made it possible for the rest of us to be able to stay at home, should have been rewarded with such bonus.

We should not, as a society, now be locked in these incessant strikes and threats of strikes as workers demand pay increases that even if granted, are highly unlikely to make much difference for obvious economic reasons that really isn’t the fault of the government. One strike will simply lead to the next and the next…….

What is abundantly clear though, is that we don’t have any real thinkers left. All we have is a modern-era of leaders who worry more about opinion polls and tweeter feeds etc. We are in trouble!!!